The nine student agitators arrested after storming an academic building at Barnard College Wednesday night were not students of the elite women’s college, but joined in the melee from nearby

Nine protesters were arrested at the scene as dozens of NYPD officers entered the library. The bomb threat was deemed not credible.

The Police Department said several demonstrators were taken into custody during the sit-in at the college’s main library.

The leadership of Columbia University's Barnard College in New York City called law enforcement on their students after they staged a library sit-in on Wednesday, the second such sit-in in a week.

In an op-ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a trade paper, Barnard President Laura Rosenbury said the women’s college affiliated with Columbia University is working to identify all